Datanomic was a software engineering company based in
Cambridge
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England
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Founded in 2001, Datanomic was a UK-based software company developing data quality solutions. In 2006, Datanomic acquired
Tranato and integrated Tranato's semantic profiling and parsing capabilities with Datanomic's data auditing and cleansing to produce a new data quality application. Launched in July 2007, dn:Director provided an end-to-end data quality tool kit encompassing, data profiling, auditing, cleansing and matching through a single graphical user interface and all written in
Java
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Although dn:Director had capabilities to handle data quality issues in all kinds of data, Datanomic targeted its dn:Director application at business users with customer data quality challenges. It adopted a strategy of building "applications", consisting of pre-configured rules and reference data, on top of the data quality platform to address specific business issues.
Most successful of these was its
Watchlist Screening application (in support of compliance with anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism know-your-customer regulation), which was adopted by clients including
Barclays Bank
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Bank of America
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MetLife and
Vodafone
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Datanomic was funded by private investors and venture capital companies
3i and
DN Capital
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Investments and exits
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. In July 2011, Datanomic was acquired by
Oracle Corporation,
which announced that it would combine Datanomic's technology with the Oracle product data quality capabilities it secured when it acquired Silver Creek Systems in 2010;
the new combined suite is known as Oracle Enterprise Data Quality. Datanomic's compliance screening application has also been persisted as Oracle Watchlist Screening.
References
Further reading
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External links
Case study: Data Excellence at the London Borough of Brent, finalist in the e-Government National Awards 2008Release of dn:DirectorDatanomic acquired by OracleOracle announcement of Datanomic acquisition
Software companies of the United Kingdom
Oracle acquisitions